THE BEAUTIFUL LADDER. I4I 
you will lose your desire to go and live with 
the grizzlies.” 
And may God grant the speedy opportu¬ 
nities !” was the emphatic response of David¬ 
son, “ for I feel just now as though I were truly 
converted from my social heresy, and I want to 
be established in the faith beyond all fear of 
backsliding. Doctor Dean’s lessons have given 
me some new and, I believe, more correct ideas 
of the purposes of study, and the experiences 
of the other day open to view a pathway that 
will render life not altogether useless or unde¬ 
sirable.” 
“ That view of the case,” said Rudolph, “ is 
at least more manly and rational than to give 
up to despondency, or to play the fool or mad¬ 
man, as there was some danger of one or both 
of us doing. But it must not be supposed 
that every case of want or suffering will be 
surrounded with circumstances so specially fitted 
to awaken such deep sympathy. There will not 
often be, for instance, a kind of wingless angel, 
like Alice Farley, to make you feel that you 
are the deeper in debt the more you give.” 
“Yes, that’s so. Lew,” was the reply; “and 
for that very reason I am determined to make 
